{"id":86690,"date":"2019-03-23T16:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T23:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=86690"},"modified":"2019-03-23T16:00:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T23:00:31","slug":"songs-aired-on-tv-and-radio-cabinet-nod-for-royalty-to-singers-song-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/03\/23\/songs-aired-on-tv-and-radio-cabinet-nod-for-royalty-to-singers-song-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs aired on TV and Radio &#8211; Cabinet nod for royalty to singers &#038; song writers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>My\nadvice is to pay royalty not only for songs but also for playing  Baila\u201din TV\nand Radio .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our\npoliticians like Mervin ,and some opposition and government MP\u2019s play  Baila \nto the people every day in the TV and Radio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\nlisten to those Baila and entertain and sometime we remind of mothers and curse\nthem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If\nthey&nbsp; have to pay royalty to the\npoliticians for playing Baila&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; TV and\nRadio stations will refrain from playing these Baila to the people <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera My advice is to pay royalty not only for songs but also for playing Baila\u201din TV and Radio . Our politicians like Mervin ,and some opposition and government MP\u2019s play Baila to the people every day in the TV and Radio. We listen to those Baila and entertain and sometime we remind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}